The first table below looks at the demand for the Network Security Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Network Security Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Security Engineer
Rank 676 691 776
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a Network Security Engineer 185 199 95
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.170% 0.164% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.180% 0.173% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 112 161 82
Average salary £48,000 £45,000 £43,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,100 £35,000 £29,925
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,500 £70,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.19%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102582 114838 114977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 85352 98508 97090
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Network Security Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Network Security Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Network Security Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Network Security Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Network Security Engineer within the UK.

Network Security Engineer Salary Trend

Network Security Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Network Security Engineer over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

Network Security Engineer Salary Histogram

Network Security Engineer
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Security Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -2 175 £50,000 +11.11%
London +39 84 £52,500 +5.00%
South East +4 36 £42,500 -
Berkshire +21 19 £38,500 -18.94%
Yorkshire -2 16 £47,500 +22.58%
City of London +4 14 £50,000 -6.97%
Birmingham -3 12 £52,500 -52.27%
West Midlands -29 12 £52,500 +51.07%
West Yorkshire -8 11 £46,250 +15.62%
Leeds -13 11 £46,250 +15.62%
North West -4 10 £35,000 -
Bracknell - 10 £37,500 -
Manchester - 9 £35,000 -
Scotland - 7 £42,500 -
Cambridgeshire +15 6 £32,000 -8.57%
Surrey +12 6 £44,000 +20.54%
Reading 0 6 £46,250 -2.63%
South West -7 6 - -
Bristol -8 6 - -
East of England -10 6 £32,000 -28.88%
Glasgow - 6 - -
North Yorkshire - 5 - -
Docklands, London +7 4 £32,500 -27.77%
Cambridge - 4 - -
York - 4 - -
Buckinghamshire - 4 £46,250 -
Midlands - 4 - -
Kent -25 3 £45,000 +20.00%
Newbury - 3 £38,000 -
Peterborough -1 2 £32,000 -8.57%

Network Security Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Network Security Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Network Security Engineer in their job title.

1 444 (98.89%) Network Security
2 366 (81.51%) Firewall
3 349 (77.73%) Cisco
4 327 (72.83%) CheckPoint
5 278 (61.92%) Cisco Certification
6 271 (60.36%) Juniper
7 242 (53.90%) Cisco ASA
8 236 (52.56%) CCNP
9 210 (46.77%) F5
10 184 (40.98%) Cisco PIX
11 158 (35.19%) Blue Coat
12 151 (33.63%) Finance
13 137 (30.51%) CCSE
14 131 (29.18%) Telecoms
15 115 (25.61%) JNCIS
16 110 (24.50%) Websense
17 109 (24.28%) VPN
18 103 (22.94%) CCNA
19 94 (20.94%) WAN
19 94 (20.94%) LAN
20 67 (14.92%) Load Balancing
21 65 (14.48%) MPLS
22 59 (13.14%) CCSP
23 58 (12.92%) TCP/IP
24 57 (12.69%) Windows
25 55 (12.25%) BGP
26 53 (11.80%) Linux
27 49 (10.91%) CCIE
28 48 (10.69%) DNS
29 45 (10.02%) CCSA

Network Security Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Network Security Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Network Security Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (4.454%) CSS
2 12 (2.673%) ASP
2 12 (2.673%) DCOM
3 3 (0.668%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (1.114%) Exchange Server 2003
1 5 (1.114%) MS Exchange
2 1 (0.223%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (0.223%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 18 (4.009%) MS Excel
2 5 (1.114%) MS Office
3 2 (0.445%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.445%) Sentinel
2 1 (0.223%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 444 (98.89%) Network Security
2 366 (81.51%) Firewall
3 242 (53.90%) Cisco ASA
4 184 (40.98%) Cisco PIX
5 109 (24.28%) VPN
6 94 (20.94%) WAN
6 94 (20.94%) LAN
7 65 (14.48%) MPLS
8 58 (12.92%) TCP/IP
9 55 (12.25%) BGP
10 48 (10.69%) DNS
11 42 (9.354%) VLAN
12 41 (9.131%) OSPF
13 38 (8.463%) EIGRP
14 35 (7.795%) Internet
15 34 (7.572%) DHCP
16 33 (7.350%) SSL
17 32 (7.127%) VoIP
17 32 (7.127%) NetScreen
18 31 (6.904%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.450%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.223%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 10 (2.227%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 151 (33.63%) Finance
2 131 (29.18%) Telecoms
3 11 (2.450%) Banking
4 7 (1.559%) Legal
5 5 (1.114%) Military
5 5 (1.114%) Electronics
6 4 (0.891%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.445%) Retail
8 1 (0.223%) Marketing
8 1 (0.223%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.223%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.122%) Computer Science
2 11 (2.450%) Enterprise Storage
3 9 (2.004%) PKI
3 9 (2.004%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.114%) Digital Media
5 4 (0.891%) Firmware
5 4 (0.891%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.445%) Clustering
7 1 (0.223%) SaaS
7 1 (0.223%) Kindle
7 1 (0.223%) Economics
7 1 (0.223%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.223%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 57 (12.69%) Windows
2 53 (11.80%) Linux
3 42 (9.354%) UNIX
4 13 (2.895%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.450%) Windows Server 2003
6 10 (2.227%) Windows 2000
7 9 (2.004%) Windows NT
8 7 (1.559%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.223%) Windows 2000 Server
9 1 (0.223%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (14.92%) Load Balancing
2 34 (7.572%) SIEM
3 30 (6.682%) Project Management
4 29 (6.459%) Information Security
5 26 (5.791%) ITIL
6 25 (5.568%) Network Design
7 23 (5.122%) Penetration Testing
8 19 (4.232%) Disaster Recovery
8 19 (4.232%) Strategic Planning
8 19 (4.232%) Information Management
9 15 (3.341%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 15 (3.341%) Capacity Planning
10 11 (2.450%) Network Management
10 11 (2.450%) Change Management
11 9 (2.004%) Incident Management
11 9 (2.004%) Configuration Management
12 8 (1.782%) OO
12 8 (1.782%) Business Analysis
12 8 (1.782%) Change Control
13 7 (1.559%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 31 (6.904%) SQL
2 9 (2.004%) Perl
3 8 (1.782%) Python
3 8 (1.782%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.445%) Java
4 2 (0.445%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 278 (61.92%) Cisco Certification
2 236 (52.56%) CCNP
3 137 (30.51%) CCSE
4 115 (25.61%) JNCIS
5 103 (22.94%) CCNA
6 59 (13.14%) CCSP
7 49 (10.91%) CCIE
8 45 (10.02%) CCSA
9 44 (9.800%) CISSP
10 40 (8.909%) Degree
11 25 (5.568%) CCDP
12 24 (5.345%) JNCIA
13 23 (5.122%) Security Cleared
14 21 (4.677%) SC Cleared
15 11 (2.450%) Check Point Certification
16 10 (2.227%) CISM
17 6 (1.336%) CISA
17 6 (1.336%) JNCIP
17 6 (1.336%) CEH
18 4 (0.891%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.677%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (4.009%) SLA
3 16 (3.563%) PCI DSS
4 12 (2.673%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (1.559%) COBIT
6 3 (0.668%) QA
7 1 (0.223%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 19 (4.232%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.782%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.782%) VMware ESX
2 8 (1.782%) vSphere
3 6 (1.336%) ProxySG
3 6 (1.336%) Forefront TMG
3 6 (1.336%) UAG
4 5 (1.114%) Snort
5 1 (0.223%) NFS
Systems Management
1 22 (4.900%) FortiGate
2 14 (3.118%) Norton AntiVirus
3 10 (2.227%) MIMEsweeper
4 8 (1.782%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 5 (1.114%) Cacti
5 5 (1.114%) Tivoli
6 4 (0.891%) Nagios
Vendors
1 349 (77.73%) Cisco
2 327 (72.83%) CheckPoint
3 271 (60.36%) Juniper
4 210 (46.77%) F5
5 158 (35.19%) Blue Coat
6 110 (24.50%) Websense
7 32 (7.127%) Foundry
8 30 (6.682%) Brocade
9 28 (6.236%) VMware
9 28 (6.236%) Microsoft
10 25 (5.568%) Citrix
11 22 (4.900%) Q1 Labs
12 20 (4.454%) LogLogic
13 19 (4.232%) Symantec
13 19 (4.232%) TippingPoint
13 19 (4.232%) Riverbed
14 17 (3.786%) Oracle
15 15 (3.341%) Nokia
16 13 (2.895%) Sophos
16 13 (2.895%) McAfee
City, London
You will responsible for writing the code to replace SNORT Based protocols over to Cisco and to test the entire network for errors specifically through the penetration testing...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
East London
Network & Security Engineer - Market leading organisation!... Key skills: Network & Security Support Engineer, Cisco (layer 2 & layer 3), Check Point, SPLAT, Cisco ASA, Load Balancer, Netscaler, Riverbed, DDoS, IPS.
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + bens - on call, pens, health+more
Posted: 19 May 2013
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Firewall Engineer. Juniper/Checkpoint A superb position has become available for a 2nd Line NOC Engineer with one of Europe’s fastest growing and most respected Network & Telecommunications...
Esum
Salary: Unspecified £Excellent + Bonus + Training + Bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
Caerphilly, Mid Glamorgan
Key Skills: Network, Security, Solutions, Engineer, Cisco, Firewall, Routers, Switches, VMware, ITIL, TCP/IP, UDP, VPN... VMware and Cisco virtualisation; Good communication skills; Strong organisational and planning skills;...
Computer Recruiter Ltd
Salary: To £50K (incl. Bonus) + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Newmarket, Suffolk
We have a great opportunity for a Network Support Engineer ( Linux / Network / Security Engineer) with excellent communication and customer service skills. The successful candidate may already have a...
Gate Hampton Ltd
Salary: From £18,000 to £35,000 per annum + 25 days holiday, bens and bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Job title: Senior Network security EngineerSenior Network Engineer with a strong focus on Network security required for a global broadcasting company based in London. As a Senior Network...
bluemonday recruitment
Salary: £50,000 - £65,000 per year
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
Network Security Specialist - Checkpoint, Cisco - Barbican, London - £48,000 + bonus... To be suitable for this position you will be a highly motivated self starter with enterprise network experience...
Ashdown IT
Salary: £45000 - £48000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Role: An exciting opportunity for an experienced Network / Security Engineer to join a fast paced and ambitious organisation... - Monitor network to ensure network availability to all system users...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + benefits/bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Key Skills/ Experience Required: - CCNP/CCSP certifications - BGP Routing - TCP/IP - Checkpoint / ASA Firewalls - Strong Communication (verbal/written) - Problem Solving Capability - ITIL certification (Desirable) - Cisco Call Manager (VOIP)(...
Northern Recruitment Group
Salary: £Negotiable
Posted: 17 May 2013
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
A fantastic opportunity for a Senior Network Security Engineer to secure a position within a leading software technology company just north of London... As a ground breaking and...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Be - Shares, Pension, Health
Posted: 19 May 2013
Hertfordshire
The successful candidate should have experience in design and deployment of security products including firewalls and IDSs, wired and wireless security mechanisms, high availability switching and routing on...
Oho Group Ltd.
Salary: £40000 to £60000 per annum - Excellent Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Avon Somerset Wilts Bristol, South West
You will also provide specialist network security support to other teams within Technical Operations (including the second line Technical Operations Shift Engineering team) as well as a number...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: £45 -50k plus 5% bonus and 10% on-call allowance.
Posted: 14 May 2013